The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... shall be active in promoting the cause of re- form , may be found amiable in their perfonal manners , and even attached to the cultivation of miscellaneous enquiries . He believes that this will afford the best fecurity , for our ...
... shall be active in promoting the cause of re- form , may be found amiable in their perfonal manners , and even attached to the cultivation of miscellaneous enquiries . He believes that this will afford the best fecurity , for our ...
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... shall be fo much more a man , and lefs a brute . If it lie in my Give me at least the chance of doing uncommon good , and enjoying pleasures uncommonly various and exquifite . own choice , I fhall undoubtedly fay , The affairs of man in ...
... shall be fo much more a man , and lefs a brute . If it lie in my Give me at least the chance of doing uncommon good , and enjoying pleasures uncommonly various and exquifite . own choice , I fhall undoubtedly fay , The affairs of man in ...
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... shall arrive at an excellence not inferior to his . This view of the nature of the human mind , is of the utmost importance in the fcience of education . According to the notions formerly received , educa- tion was a lottery . The cafe ...
... shall arrive at an excellence not inferior to his . This view of the nature of the human mind , is of the utmost importance in the fcience of education . According to the notions formerly received , educa- tion was a lottery . The cafe ...
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... shall find a difference in the antecedents correfpondent to the difference in the confequents . This uniformity of events and power of prediction conftitute the entire bafis of human knowledge . But there is a regularity and fyftem in ...
... shall find a difference in the antecedents correfpondent to the difference in the confequents . This uniformity of events and power of prediction conftitute the entire bafis of human knowledge . But there is a regularity and fyftem in ...
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... shall engage . These purfuits again generate the talents that discover themselves in our progress . We are accustomed to fuppofe fomething myfterious and fupernatural in the cafe of men of genius . But , if we will dismiss the first ...
... shall engage . These purfuits again generate the talents that discover themselves in our progress . We are accustomed to fuppofe fomething myfterious and fupernatural in the cafe of men of genius . But , if we will dismiss the first ...
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